Example sentences of "he [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] [det] " in BNC.

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1 he asked me for a few slices of bread which he broke into pieces and scattered over the roof .
2 But Rutherford hooked well , Crowe provided several of his best cover-drives , the groundstaff captured a dog before it could interfere with play , and Tufnell 's effort to prevent a boundary by slide-tackling the ball had the same result as when he tried it on the same ground a year ago : four .
3 One night , he found himself with a few other police enveloped in the hatred of a black township uprising .
4 ‘ Oh , that 's the Eiffel Tower , ’ and he says it in the same tone of voice as if you had shown him a portrait of Grandpa , and he had said : ‘ So that 's your grandfather I 've heard so much about .
5 AN ARMED robber ‘ executed ’ a security guard because he recognised him as a former schoolmate , a court was told yesterday .
6 ‘ You will not be coming back , ’ he assured her in the same arrogant tone .
7 ‘ Oh , in cash , he paid me on the same day , insisted on doing so .
8 He paid it in the same spirit that he washed himself-obsessively .
9 He addressed her in the same way as he had her mistress , with the deference due to age .
10 He satisfied himself with a few words of hurried consultation during a House of Commons debate .
11 He examined it for a few moments , then realised Tock was standing beside him with a can of oil .
12 Now he finds himself in the same position as his predecessor — a relative conservative whose time is past .
13 He took me to a few parties but I was uneasy about him .
14 You will ask yourself , ‘ If I listen to my best friend within and follow the precepts , will he lead me to the same holiness as those whose life was dedicated to the light ? ’
15 He was not looking forward to the events which he knew lay ahead of him that morning , but he dismissed all such thoughts from his mind : pleasant and unpleasant , most tasks were equal to him now : he viewed them with the same cold dispassion — so many tasks in each day , so many days in each week , so many weeks in each year .
16 It was for Couples , already top of the world rankings , his first major championship and he did it in the same accomplished manner that has already marked two earlier victories on the American tour .
17 As for the English speaking , a child of far more than three has no difficulty learning Italian and is so far from being wedded to the tongue he has begun with that he forgets it within a few months so do not say to me that is an obstacle .
18 He said nothing for a few seconds , and I sensed that I might have unsettled this policeman .
19 He quoted me in the same paragraph , but somehow omitted some key words about the commitment of both Novell and USL to preserving the business model by which USL serves its licensees .
20 Off the field , he conducted himself with the same composure and dignity as he did whenever he pulled on the white shirt of England or the claret and blue of West Ham .
21 And did n't he desert her in the same heartless way ?
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